Yellow-plumed Honeyeater at Hall

[Steve Holliday <>]

Hi Brian

 

The short answer is very little. There were a few flowers on some of the Blakely’s Red Gum on the TSR side of the highway, on the eastern side where we saw the YPHE I didn’t notice anything flowering.

 

Birds mostly seemed to be finding food by gleaning from leaves, presumably lerps and such-like.

 

Cheers

 

Steve

 

From: Hawkins, Brian [
Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:28 PM
To: Steve Holliday;
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Yellow-plumed Honeyeater at Hall

 

G’day Steve,

 

Is there much Eucalypt flowering at the site?

 

Brian Hawkins

 

From: Steve Holliday [
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 12:13 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Yellow-plumed Honeyeater at Hall

 

Prue and I met Alastair Smith at the Hall TSR this morning to look for the Yellow-plumed Honeyeaters belatedly reported on Birdline yesterday. After two hours in the TSR, on both sides of the border, we had seen a lot of honeyeaters but no Yellow-plumes.

 

We then crossed to the eastern side of the highway to the patch of woodland opposite the TSR, north of the rest area at the end of Victoria St. Prue and I eventually located a Yellow-plume with lots of other honeyeaters and pardalotes. We had it in view long enough for Prue to get a few photos before a White-plume chased it off. Good that at least one bird has been around for at least a week, hopefully more people can connect with them.

 

See ebird report for a couple of Prue’s photos https://ebird.org/australia/view/checklist/S46361323

 

 

Cheers

 

Steve